New Criticism, and Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism

New Criticism, Close Reading, and Failing Critical Literacy Again

On New Criticism and Louise Rosenblatt: A Clarification and Dialogue

“A Richer, Not a Narrower, Aesthetic”: The Rise of New Criticism in En­glish Journal

Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism

Timeline (most of these overlap)

• Moral Criticism, Dramatic Construction (~360 BC-present)
• Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism (1930s-present)
• Psychoanalytic Criticism, Jungian Criticism(1930s-present)
• Marxist Criticism (1930s-present)
• Reader-Response Criticism (1960s-present)
• Structuralism/Semiotics (1920s-present)
• Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction (1966-present)
• New Historicism/Cultural Studies (1980s-present)
• Post-Colonial Criticism (1990s-present)
• Feminist Criticism (1960s-present)
• Gender/Queer Studies (1970s-present)
• Critical Race Theory (1970s-present)
• Critical Disability Studies (1990s-present)